Focus, Newness and Their Combination: Processing of Information Structure in Discourse

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	Focus, Newness and Their Combination: Processing of Information Structure in Discourse
	Chen, Lijing 1,2; Li, Xingshan 1; Yang, Yufang1
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2012-08-17
卷号	7 期号:8 页码:e42533
ISSN号	1932-6203
通讯作者	Chen, LJ (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
产权排序	1
英文摘要	The relationship between focus and new information has been unclear despite being the subject of several information structure studies. Here, we report an eye-tracking experiment that explored the relationship between them in on-line discourse processing in Chinese reading. Focus was marked by the Chinese focus-particle "shi", which is equivalent to the cleft structure "it was. who." in English. New information was defined as the target word that was not present in previous contexts. Our results show that, in the target region, focused information was processed more quickly than non-focused information, while new information was processed more slowly than given information. These results reveal differences in processing patterns between focus and newness, and suggest that they are different concepts that relate to different aspects of cognitive processing. In addition, the effect of new/given information occurred in the post-target region for the focus condition, but not for the non-focus condition, suggesting a complex relationship between focus and newness in the discourse integration stage.
学科主题	Cognitive psychology
收录类别	SCI
项目简介	This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 31070989) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant number: 60775026). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
原文出处	http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3422350/pdf/pone.0042533.pdf
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000308063700015
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/12823]
专题	心理研究所_脑与认知科学国家重点实验室心理研究所_认知与发展心理学研究室
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Lijing,Li, Xingshan,Yang, Yufang. Focus, Newness and Their Combination: Processing of Information Structure in Discourse[J]. PLOS ONE,2012,7(8):e42533.
APA	Chen, Lijing,Li, Xingshan,&Yang, Yufang.(2012).Focus, Newness and Their Combination: Processing of Information Structure in Discourse.PLOS ONE,7(8),e42533.
MLA	Chen, Lijing,et al."Focus, Newness and Their Combination: Processing of Information Structure in Discourse".PLOS ONE 7.8(2012):e42533.